SEC honors Florida's Hunter

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Sep 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM

Florida senior nose tackle Omar Hunter was named SEC Defensive lineman of the Week on Monday.

Florida senior nose tackle Omar Hunter was named SEC Defensive lineman of the Week on Monday. Hunter had a career-high and team-leading eight tackles (three solos) in Florida's 38-0 win against Kentucky. He helped lead a defensive unit that shut out an SEC opponent for the first time in 11 seasons (since 2001, def. Miss. State, 52-0).

The Gator defense allowed just 60 passing yards and held the Wildcats to 4-of-15 on third down conversions. Other SEC award winners after Saturday's games:

• Hamilton set an SEC record with 303 receiving yards on 10 catches and three touchdowns in Arkansas' 35-26 loss to Rutgers. The yardage total is the most in NCAA FBS this season and 14th highest in FBS history and the average per catch (30.3) is also an SEC record.

• Shaw completed 20-of-21 passes for 249 yards and two touchdowns and connected on a school-record 20 consecutive passes in South Carolina's 31-10 win over Missouri. The completion percentage is a school record and second highest in SEC history. The 20 consecutive passes is 2nd in SEC history and streak is active going into Gamecocks' next contest (SEC record: 24 by Tee Martin, UT, 1998).

• Montgomery accounted for four tackles (3 solos) with 3.5 going for losses for minus 14 yards in LSU's 12-10 win at Auburn.

• His first tackle-for-loss resulted in a safety and a 2-0 LSU first quarter lead.

• Included in the 3.5 tackles for loss was a sack for minus 5 yards.

• For the game, LSU limited Auburn to only nine first downs and 183 total yards (86 rushing, 97 passing). Auburn's longest drive of the game went 42 yards and got inside the LSU 25-yard line just twice, one of which came after an LSU fumble that gave Auburn the ball on the LSU 26-yard line.

• Sanders had six punt returns for 106 yards including a 49-yard return in South Carolina's 31-10 win over Missouri. The 49-yard return set up the Gamecocks' first score of the game. Sanders also had a 23-yard TD scoring catch in the game.

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• Harris set a school and SEC record with 246 punt return yards on eight returns in Texas A&M's 70-14 win over South Carolina State, including a 96-yard return for a score, which is the second-longest in Aggie history.

• Gurley registered his third career 100+ yard game in four contests after carrying the ball 16 times for a career-high 130 yards (8.1 avg.) and two touchdowns during Georgia's 48-3 win against Vanderbilt.

• He leads the SEC in rushing (101.5 yards per game), scoring (10.5 points per game) and all-purpose yardage (164.2 yards per game).

• The Bulldogs have scored 40 points in four consecutive games for the first time in school history.

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